FUTURE OF SELLING · JASON LIM
What if the team left the kickoff able to run the new pitch the following week? Imagine a sales kickoff presentation that sets one method, one offer and one standard, instead of a slide marathon that is forgotten by Monday. Even if the year has a new number and a new pack of tools, you can still open with a message that sticks. It's like tuning the orchestra before the curtain, not during the first song.
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Since 2016, his events have reached 100,000+ founders across Asia.
Closed $7M+ in deals by 24 and rebuilt from zero twice.
Our graduates have produced 8-figure results and beyond.
He closed over $7 million in deals, so the kickoff is built to change the next meeting, not to fill a morning.
He started coaching basketball at 16, and a kickoff is treated like a season opener: one plan, practised in public.
Graduates who applied the method have produced 8-figure results; two of their stories appear further down, and a Shanghai kickoff is planned with it.
He studied under Marshall Thurber (creator of Money & You®), Joel Bauer, Tony Robbins, Chet Holmes and Bob Proctor. The room stays tight, not a loose morning of updates.
P.I.T.C.H. gives the year a single spine the team can reuse in buyer meetings, not only in the hall.
The room practises in order: one message, one rehearsal, then the next message.
You work on the actual kickoff talk, so the version on the day is the one you rehearsed.
The sales kickoff presentation coaching in Singapore method, applied for Shanghai rooms.
A kickoff is a leadership pitch to your own team. You learn how they decide to adopt a method, and you present to that.
Power, Intent, Teach, Close and Habits applied to a kickoff presentation and the first-week follow-through.
You rehearse the hard questions on targets, tools and 'what do we do on Monday' until the answers are practical.
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“Honestly, just five minutes with him is worth not hundreds, not thousands—but thousands upon thousands.”
Vũ Ngọc Hoa, CEO, Enlightenment Education.
“Your script really worked like magic!”
Javier Wong, CEO, Lifetutors Singapore.

Jason Lim was once an extreme introvert who dreaded the stage. A financial scam wiped out his family's savings. In 2020, he also lost everything he had built. He rose again by learning to say what his work was worth, so the other person could truly hear it. He shaped that skill into Future of Selling, where he now teaches P.I.T.C.H.
His first teaching role was as a basketball coach, at 16. Later he closed over $7 million in deals. He studied under renowned mentors: Marshall Thurber (creator of Money & You®), Joel Bauer, Tony Robbins, Chet Holmes and Bob Proctor. Today he helps founders win without losing what truly matters. Leaders from Skystone Asset Management, Signarama Singapore, Enlightenment Education, Mindreader AI and 8Yolk Design Studio are among those who have trained with him.
Each leader presents a pack, and the team cannot say what to do differently on Monday.
No one has rehearsed it out loud, and the field reverts to last year's habit.
People leave motivated and still unsure which conversation to change first.
Time buyers spend with suppliers
17%
When B2B buyers are considering a purchase, they spend only 17% of that time meeting with potential suppliers. When they compare several suppliers, the time with any one sales rep may be only 5% to 6%.
Most buyers prefer to research on their own first, so a kickoff that only repeats the pack wastes the time you have the team together.
The year starts with three versions of the offer in the field.
You run more enablement sessions and still hear last year's opening in calls.
Evenings go to another version of the kickoff deck no one asked to rehearse.
The room remembers the energy, and not the method, and the year starts unevenly.
Most kickoffs are planned as a broadcast: numbers, tools, then a cheer. Teams change when they can practise a new conversation. When the talk never becomes a rehearsal, Monday looks like December. It's like announcing a new route and never walking it with the drivers.
A kickoff is scarce time together. The talk should change the next buyer meeting, not only the mood in the hall.
Buyers still want a seller's view on fit. The kickoff should give the team that language.
New foreign-invested enterprises established in China in 2025, 19.1% more than in 2024. The work is to set a pitch the team can take to them.
New foreign-invested enterprises established in Shanghai in 2025, 6.8% more than in 2024. The kickoff should install one offer the team will actually use.
New foreign-invested enterprises in China
70,392
New foreign-invested enterprises established in China in 2025, 19.1% more than in 2024.
Source: Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China (MOFCOM) News Office, 23 January 2026
New foreign-invested enterprises in Shanghai
6,361
New foreign-invested enterprises established in Shanghai in 2025, 6.8% more than in 2024.
Buyers who'd rather skip the rep
61%
Of B2B buyers prefer an overall rep-free buying experience, yet for tasks such as judging whether a product or service fits their company's needs, buyers prefer to seek seller input.
Source: Gartner press release, 25 June 2025: survey of 632 B2B buyers, August to September 2024
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